Bilateral bounds for structures under dynamic shakedown conditions

Abstract

Bounds to functions of the plastic strains produced during the elastic-plastic stage of a dynamic loading process leading to shakedown can be constructed on the basis of the solution of a single, static, holonomic elastic-plastic problem. This bounding procedure is described in detail with respect to the case of periodic external loading, and the generalization to an arbitrary dynamic loading condition is provided. Simple examples illustrate the bounding effectiveness of the proposed technique.